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Twelve Men (Hardcover, New)
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Twelve Men (Hardcover, New)
Series: The University of Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition
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Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie
Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in
journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having
recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Boni
and Liveright, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book of characters"
that would collect twelve biographical sketches of individuals who
were major influences on Dreiser, both as a man and as a writer.
The resulting narratives combine the best attributes of the
character sketch, the autobiography, and the short story into
miniature masterpieces of prose. The men profiled in Twelve Men are
a diverse and colorful group: from Dreiser's equally famous
brother, the songwriter Paul Dresser ("My Brother Paul"), to the
entirely obscure railroad foreman Michael Burke ("The Mighty
Rourke"), on whose work crew Dreiser had labored in 1903. The
twelve narratives are compelling portraits of the men portrayed,
but they also reveal many insights into Dreiser's own life and
work. These factors elevate the significance of Twelve Men to a
level consistent with other major works in the Dreiser canon.
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